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The Dark at the End (Repairman Jack #15)
Bound by his promise to Glaeken, Jack has refrained from making any direct moves against Rasalom. But things have changed so there's nothing holdingJack in check any longer. Other changes are occurring as well. Jack ishealing at an accelerated rate--much like Glaeken did when he was immortal. This can only mean that Glaeken's time is almost up and when he dies, Jack takes
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
October 11th 2011
by Tor Books
(first published July 15th 2011)
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The Secret History of The World is winding down and it will mean the end of civilization as we know it.
THE TOMB is the first Repairman Jack novel. It was the second of a six book sequence called The Adversary Cycle. Jack also appeared briefly in the sixth book, NIGHTWORLD.
Then fifteen years after publication of THE TOMB(1984), it became a series itself. Wilson revised the book, updating cultural references to the late nineties, and began a line of fifteen more novels covering only a three year p...more
THE TOMB is the first Repairman Jack novel. It was the second of a six book sequence called The Adversary Cycle. Jack also appeared briefly in the sixth book, NIGHTWORLD.
Then fifteen years after publication of THE TOMB(1984), it became a series itself. Wilson revised the book, updating cultural references to the late nineties, and began a line of fifteen more novels covering only a three year p...more
The fifteenth and last (except for the inevitable at least three prequels!) Repairman Jack book. Following immediately after Fatal Error, Jack and Weezy (and the Lady, and Glaeken) seek out clues in the Compendium of Srem, a book full of information about the Otherness, and in their old hometown of Johnson, New Jersey. But Rasalom has corrupted the book, and also has plans that involve Dawn Pickering and her mutate baby. This leads to a couple of high-adrenaline, high risk plans, in which Jack a...more
This is the last Repairman Jack book. I hesitate to call it a novel, since for the past six or seven books, the RJ saga resembles less a series of novels and more a continuing saga, each book ending in a cliffhanger. This book ends in a cliffhanger, too, and the saga will dovetail into Wilson's "Adversary Cycle". The final book of the Adversary Cycle came out in 1992, but a new revision of it will be coming out in a few months, and will cap the storylines.
Repaiman Jack is a resourceful guy who l...more
Repaiman Jack is a resourceful guy who l...more
The last Repairman Jack book. It is like saying goodbye to an old friend. 15 books is quite an investment between the author and the reader. True, Jack will make an appearance in next years finale to the Adversary Cycle (NightWorld) and will also appear in some prequels. Was it a fitting finish? Hard to say. I am still trying to decide. There were parts I liked as well as some I didn't. I guess I can say that about the whole series. Especially the last several books, some of which almost seemed...more
Ok overall I liked this book. I put off reading it because I knew it was the last in the repairman jack series and I didn't want it to end. All of the elements of a good repairman jack novel are there, however, you know right from the beginning that this isn't going to work out well, Jack isn't going to save the world from the Otherness etcetc, and you know this because the next book along is Nightworld, which pretty much says everything doesn't it. So because I had figured out that this was goi...more
The End is coming.
Actually, it's been coming for several novels, as we've watched the changes and experiences mold Repairman Jack into The Heir. Jack can fix anything, except the fate of the world.
At this point, The Lady can be killed forever. Glaeken is nearing the end of his very long life. Dawn is desperate for news about her baby. Weezy is trying to get The Compendium to reveal its secrets. And the world is teetering on the brink.
The Dark at the End is a fitting end to the Repairman Jack s...more
Actually, it's been coming for several novels, as we've watched the changes and experiences mold Repairman Jack into The Heir. Jack can fix anything, except the fate of the world.
At this point, The Lady can be killed forever. Glaeken is nearing the end of his very long life. Dawn is desperate for news about her baby. Weezy is trying to get The Compendium to reveal its secrets. And the world is teetering on the brink.
The Dark at the End is a fitting end to the Repairman Jack s...more
Flippin love Repairman Jack and F.Paul Wilson! There has not been one single book I have read of his that I have not absolutely loved, and that statement holds true yet again. The last book in the epic Repairman Jack series, and damn am I sad to see it go. What I love is that it is not so filled with the Supernatural that it bogs it down as a hardcore Sci-Fi, and it has such amazing plots and characters and different happenings that have all finally come together and he has just done a tremendou...more
I read the "Adversary Cycle" back in the mid 1990's. 6 books, and it was great. Parts of it still give me nightmares-no lie.
Well, Wilson decided to expand the story of "Repairman Jack"(Who is in The Tomb and Nightworld in The Adversary Cycle), and wrote 14 more novels----set in-between the events in the "Adversary Cycle". AND he also wrote 3 Young Adult novels about Jack. (He drops tibits about Jack's childhood, as if he hopes you will pick up the YA novels.)
While I love Wilson and Repairman Ja...more
Well, Wilson decided to expand the story of "Repairman Jack"(Who is in The Tomb and Nightworld in The Adversary Cycle), and wrote 14 more novels----set in-between the events in the "Adversary Cycle". AND he also wrote 3 Young Adult novels about Jack. (He drops tibits about Jack's childhood, as if he hopes you will pick up the YA novels.)
While I love Wilson and Repairman Ja...more
Jan 10, 2012
Greg
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This is the final book in a fictional series I have been reading for years, Repairman Jack. I had requested it from the library, and unfortunately, it came at a time when I am solidly immersed in far more interesting non-fiction books. I wanted to like it, I really did, but honestly, I was just bored out of my skull. read the first 30-40 pages (treadmill reading), skimmed the rest fairly quickly, and then skipped to the last few pages to see how it all ends. Wilson had been telling his readers f...more
I picked this one up at the library, because it was on the 'just in' shelf. Not my kind of story, although to be fair I have never read any others in the series, so I'm sure I'm missing a huge chunk of a story line that might be much better than a single piece. Having said that...I can usually still get into a story where ever I happen to pick it up, but this just didn't do it for me. I got about half way into the book, slightly intrigued by the slow change Jack is realizing he is going through,...more
I loved this book! I have been an avid F. Paul Wilson fan for years and think Repairman Jack is one of the most inventive characters ever written. This penultimate book, leading up to Nightworld, where the final battle will take place, was well paced and thoroughly engaging. What will happen? Will Glaeken and Jack be able to stop Rasalom now that the dark is coming? It seems hopeless. But we're talking about Jack here, so maybe there is a glimmer of hope. I can't wait to find out! But it will be...more
Supposedly the finale (15th) Repairman Jack series, but I did not see things resolved, even after a gratuitous foreword by author F. Paul Wilson. Seems like I will have to read the "updated" version of Nightworld, where Jack's role was significantly increased. Dawn Pickering is searching for her supposedly deceased baby, tracking the monstrosity to a home on the East End of Long Island. Meanwhile Jack finally persuades Glaeken and the Lady to allow him to take the fight to Rasalom, buying an unp...more
I am the biggest Jack fan ever and looked forward to this book with mixed feelings. I love a new Jack book but this was to be the last in the series. Oh the thrill of how it would all end was going to be sooooo good. This was probably the lamest book of the lot and I was very disappointed. Paul Wilson set us up with no satisfying end to the greatest anti-hero ever. Just a lead in to another book or books. Jack deserved to end in some kind of blaze of glory not fade into some other era. Very disa...more
Technically this is the final Repairman Jack book. But _Nightworld_ came out with the "Repairman Jack novel!" blazon on the cover, just like all the others, so we'll say "penultimate" and move on.
I dunno, I expected more oomph of a penultimate book. Tension-wise this series has been cruising along at about 3-out-of-10 for the last couple of books, and now the author has ratcheted it up to a 5.
This is not to say nothing happens -- stuff *happens*; but it's not strikingly apocalyptic. Jack goes af...more
I dunno, I expected more oomph of a penultimate book. Tension-wise this series has been cruising along at about 3-out-of-10 for the last couple of books, and now the author has ratcheted it up to a 5.
This is not to say nothing happens -- stuff *happens*; but it's not strikingly apocalyptic. Jack goes af...more
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Several years ago I remembered a really good short story I had read and looked up the author. Turned out to be someone named F. Paul Wilson. I remembered his name from when I worked in a bookstore and decided I should try some of his novels. If his short story was so memorable, I imagined what one of his novels might be like.
Well, one book led to another and another and I quickly devoured most of his library. Needless to say, after reading The Tomb, I fell in love with his Repairman Jack charact...more
Well, one book led to another and another and I quickly devoured most of his library. Needless to say, after reading The Tomb, I fell in love with his Repairman Jack charact...more
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The 15th installment of the Repairman Jack series pays off handsomely for the careful planning F. Paul Wilson laid out from the beginning of the "Jack" series 'The Tomb' and continued on through 13 more books that followed, detailing the cosmic conflict between two entities where the Earth is the spoils for the victor. Great pacing, action sequences, dialogue and tight plotting abound in this book as we've come to expect with all his previous RJ tales. All the major players appear and plot threa...more
In what was originally intended as the final Repairman Jack, we get to the right point for Nightworld to start. This is not quite as good as the last two or three in the series but it gets the job done in a reasonably satisfying way. If you have not read any of the series, do not start here. You will have no idea what's going on.
For the record, there are now to be three new books to fit in before The Tomb.
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For the record, there are now to be three new books to fit in before The Tomb.
http://opionator.wordpress.com/2011/1...
Did I really like it? I'm not sure. I liked it for it's place in the RJ series but it was really depressing. The ending confused me. I don't understand certain loose ends Rasalom allowed. Also, it's always annoyed me that a certain character remained in an apartment that was suspected to be watched by enemies. Now I'm mad and don't understand the reason for staying there other than stupidity. Did I miss something? Did it some how not matter?Well, I'm off to the conclusion provided in Nightworld....more
This is really more of a giant prologue for Nightworld than a novel unto itself. It gets all the pieces in place for the final conflict, so it serves it's purpose. Giving it three stars because it lacked the substance of other Jack novels, because it was so intent on getting everyone where they needed to be. This was actually much more of an Adversary Cycle book than a Repairman Jack novel. That being said, I'm very excited to read Nightworld and see how these two incredible sagas pay off.
I read this book slowly, didn't want to see the series end. And it didn't, I guess I need to read Nightworld to finish the entire cycle.
FPW left a few threads dangling at the end, but tied up enough pieces so that it was a satisfying read in terms on bringing some things to conclusion.
My only regret is that it took him this long to kill off Dawn Pickering, perhaps the most annoying character he ever dreamed up.
FPW left a few threads dangling at the end, but tied up enough pieces so that it was a satisfying read in terms on bringing some things to conclusion.
My only regret is that it took him this long to kill off Dawn Pickering, perhaps the most annoying character he ever dreamed up.
Can't say much without spoilers, but IMO there were too many improbabilities (including massive stupidity of one or two of the characters, again) just to bring us to the end the way it was pre-conceived. I can't wait to read the new Nightworld, though. The description reminds me of (view spoiler)
I liked the book a lot. There's only one or two Repairman Jack books I didn't like. However, F. Paul Wilson led us to believe this was the end "though Jack would appear in Nightworld". At the end of this book, it's CLEAR it's not the end. And it's clear that Jack will have to make a return. I don't see the point of billing this book as the end of the series. Still good. Then again, I've grown to really love this series.
Finally realized that I probably should have been reading the alternate history books before getting this far in the Repairman Jack books. I got through this one okay, but I'm still deciding if I need to read the other series in order to understand the next book. We'll see. I might just plunge in and hope for the best!
Wrapping up his series about a Lovecraftian supernatural apocalypse. F Paul's books are a quick read, heavily plot-driven and transparently written. You won't find yourself re-reading sentences to savor their beauty, but you will find yourself rushing along to see how it all ends. I mean that in a good way.
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Explosions and rampage, Jack goes ballistic. That the death at the end happens makes everything bitter however. Wilson doesn't let the reader have control over the story and this book is no exception. In that he gives a realism to the story even in midst of cosmic battles. Only one more to go.
I really enjoyed this last "new" novel in the Repairman Jack series. As always Wilson's writing is excellent, his characters are well crafted, and the ending was exceptional--heartbreaking, brutal, and just what was needed to set up the finale. However, as much as I enjoy the series, Wilson seemed to be stretching the story along needlessly, and this book really need to have happened three or so books ago. While I enjoy the series I am glad Wilson is bringing it to an end.
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The Lady is weakened from her 2nd death and the One is on the move looking to exploit the situation. Dawn's half q'qr baby (the one with tentacles growing under his arms) has been kidnapped and somehow fits into Rasalom's scheme. Jack learns he's the Heir and needs to step up.
IT is sad to think that this is the last true Repairman Jack novel. But it is certainly as great as all of the previous ones. Now I can't wait to read the new revised & reprinted version of F. Paul Wilson's NIGHT WORLD. I guess in the mean time I can always read The wonder Years of Repairman Jack.
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Francis Paul Wilson is an author, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer (1976). Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog and continued to write science fiction throughout the seventies. In 1981 he ventured into the horror genre with t...more
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